Notable People from Hawaii

Toshio Miyamoto

American baseball player (1933-)

Keōua Kūʻahuʻula

member of the royal class during the unification of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi

Ronald Takaki

American historian (1939-2009)

MaKee K. Blaisdell

American actor (1931-1988)

Henry de Varigny

French physician, naturalist and journalist

Kaʻiana

kamaliʻikane (Prince) of Puna, Kaʻū and the island of Kauaʻi

Joe Francis

American gridiron football player (1936-2013)

Jason Slater

American record producer (1971–2020)

Wynee

first Native Hawaiian from the Hawaiian Islands to traveled abroad

William Paul Jarrett

American sheriff and politician (1877-1929)

Neal Blaisdell

Mayor of Honolulu from 1955 to 1969 and member of the Hawaii Republican Party

Arthur Lyman

American jazz vibraphone and marimba player group popularized a faux-Polynesian musical style that became known as exotica (1932-2002)

Anthony K. Roberts

American photographer

Frank Ferera

Hawaiian musician (1885–1951)

Aukai Collins

American Islamist (1974-2016)

Abigail Campbell Kawānanakoa

Hawaiian princess (1882–1945)

Boki

Hawaiian high chief and merchant

Winfield W. Scott, Jr.

United States general

Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett

Native Hawaiian suffragist

Jeremiah Green

American drummer (1977–2022)

Tojo Yamamoto

American professional wrestler (1927-1992)

Teresia Teaiwa

Kiribati poet (1968–2017)

David Malo

Hawaiian historian

George Naʻope

Hula master and Merrie Monarch Festival organizer (1928-2009)

Gabe Baltazar

American musician (1929–2022)

Henry A. P. Carter

American businessman, politician, and diplomat in the Kingdom of Hawaii

Shinyei Nakamine

United States Army Medal of Honor recipient (1920-1944)

Hilo Hattie

Native Hawaiian singer, hula dancer, actress and comedian (1901-1979)

Pedro Velasco

Olympic volleyball player (1937–2023)

James Kealoha

American politician (1908–1983)

Namahana Piia

Hawaiian royal consort

Garret T. Sato

American actor (1964-2020)

Kanealai

politician

Richard E. Cunha

American cinematographer (1922-2005)

Juliette May Fraser

Hawaiian American artist (1887–1983)

Keohokālole

Hawaiian chiefess

Kwan Hi Lim

American actor (1922-2008)

Dick Cleveland

American swimmer, Pan American Games gold medalist, former world record-holder

Curtis P. Iaukea

Hawaiian and American politician (1855–1940)

Keoni Ana

Hawaiian noble (1810-1857)

George Parsons Lathrop

American novelist and poet

Charles Crane

businessman and politician in Hawaii

Kuini Liliha

Traditional Hawaiian High Chiefess who served as royal governor of Oʻahu from 1829 to 1831

Vince Manuwai

American football player (1980-2018)

Arthur Webster Emerson

American painter (1885-1968)

George W. Macfarlane

British businessman, courtier and politician

Al Kikume

actor, stuntman (1894-1972)

Robert Hoapili Baker

American politician

Mary Foster

American philanthropist

Prince Oana

American baseball player (1908–1976)